• Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days by Jessica Livingston
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t by Jim Collins
  • Also a favourite of Evan Williams and Jeff Bezos
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
  • Also a favourite of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger
• Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
  • Also a favourite of Kevin Rose
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman
• The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
• The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen
  • Also a favourite of Jeff Bezos, Mark Cuban, Malcolm Gladwell, Steve Jobs, Guy Kawasaki and Evan Williams
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Also a favourite of Jack Dorsey
• Too Big to Fail: Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street by Andrew Ross Sorkin
• When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein
• Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel
  • Also a favourite of Elon Musk